At 01:29 PM 3/25/2009 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: >Paul Moore wrote: >>2009/3/25 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>: > >>Since setuptools came on the scene, I can state with some certainty >>that many packages which would otherwise have been distributed as >>bdist_wininst installers, now aren't. In some cases, only source >>packages are provided (on the basis that easy_install will build what >>you need). In those cases, I can accept that maybe the developer would >>not have built Windows installers even before setuptools arrived. But >>in a significant number of cases - including setuptools itself!!!! - >>binary, version-specific eggs for Windows are provided, but no >>bdist_wininst installers. If the developer is willing to build an egg, >>he could just as easily have built an installer - but he now has to >>choose - build one or the other, or both. And not everyone chooses the >>same way. > >Is it possible to write an egg to bdist converter (or vice versa)? easy_install can convert bdist_wininst installers to .egg files; I'm not sure if the reverse is possible in practice, although it certainly is in principle.
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